Osho Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh Smoking Meditation

Osho Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh Smoking Meditation

Smoking meditation does not encourage anyone to smoke and it is the main point here to understand clearly. According to my point of view, it is just a shadow of most of the meditations by Bhagwan Shree Osho Rajneesh because the fundamental rule is the same which is awareness. There is a story connected with this meditation. When you will know the whole story related with this meditation, you will be getting more acceptable to it.

Once a man visited Bhagwan Shree Osho Rajneesh. The man was a chain smoker and he had been smoking for thirty years. He wanted to quit smoking and he made every effort that he could. He also had suffered a lot in trying to quit smoking. He always failed and could not quit smoking. People who smoke a lot can feel that if they do not smoke for sometime, they can feel a severe urge to smoke. It is very difficult to quit smoking. I would like to rise a question here that can you quit taking coffee or tea if you are in a habit of having four cups daily. I think, you would not be able to do it. We can't get even get rid of coffee or tea then smoking is a lot more ahead of it. Smoking has been considered wrong ethically because of the health issues but if we compare coffee, tea and cigarettes on the grounds of being habitual only then there is not much difference among them. They are almost equally bad.

Lets come back to the story again. A man visited Bhagwan Shree Osho Rajneesh and he had no respect for himself as he could not even quit smoking. He was looking for his suggestion. Bhagwan Shree Osho Rajneesh replied that nobody can quit smoking so easily especially when somebody is smoking for thirty years. It has become your permanent habit. For you, it is not different from walking, sitting, eating, drinking etc. Its not even a question for you to quit smoking. Mind is impotent, it can adopt things easily but cannot surrender easily. So, Bhagwan Shree Osho Rajneesh suggested him to forget about quitting.

On the other hand, he recommended him to smoke and enjoy it fully while being aware. He said that everything can be a meditation. Smoking can be a meditation itself. You just need to be fully conscious while smoking, touching the cigarette, having its taste, filling the lungs with smoke, exhaling and even touching the cigarette pack when you take cigarette out from your pocket. Just be fully aware of what are you doing. The man felt astonished but he was deeply interested in it as he could not imagine smoking as a meditation. Osho told him that if you can do all these things, the day will come when smoking will seem stupid thing to you. If you cannot do it then do not worry about quitting. The man took his advice and came back after three months. He had quit smoking that time.

Summary of Smoking Meditation by Bhagwan Shree Osho Rajneesh

Summary of this meditation is not to ask anybody to smoke but if anyone could not quit smoking then there is nothing to worry about it. Smoking itself can be a meditation. You just have to remain aware while smoking. It will automatically make you feel after some days that smoking is a stupid thing to do. If smoking can be a meditation then everything like sitting, standing, speaking, listening etc. can be a meditation. Just remain aware of what you do. The whole world would look wonderful to you.